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Two of Émile Lizotte's harpoons (left) and spontoons used to kill belugas
Late 19th century/early 20th century
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Photograph: Vadim-D. Vladykov
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)
Vladykov, Vadim-D. "Études sur les mammifères aquatiques." Montreal, Université de Montréal, 1944

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Men killing belugas caught inside the poles
In the 1920s
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Frédéric Back
Belugas, 1996
Coloured pencil, frosted acetate
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)

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Émile Lizotte killing a beluga with a spontoon
Around 1925
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Centre d'archives de la Côte-du-Sud
Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière collection (F100/728/10/7)
Unknown photographer
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)

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Joseph Lizotte and the men he hired worked at the fishery day and night. They lived in the house at the point of the river, the same house that inspired fear in the fishermen of Henri-Raymond Casgrain's era. The workers tirelessly killed the belugas caught in the weirs, hauling them up onto the beach at high tide or anchoring them inside the fishery, for later retrieval. The belugas were prepared on the beach for processing to extract their by-products.

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House on the point, where the employees lived
Around 1925
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Centre d'archives de la Côte-du-Sud
Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière collection
Unknown photographer
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)

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Lantern and oil can
Around 1925
La Pocatière, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Musée François-Pilote
Photograph: Judith Douville
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)

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Postcard of a successful beluga catch
Around 1920
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Centre d'archives de la Côte-du-Sud
Collection (C034/1/4/41.8)
Unknown photographer
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)

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Men using high tide to retrieve the belugas that were caught
Around 1925
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Centre d'archives de la Côte-du-Sud
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)

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Horse hauling beluga carcass ashore
Around 1925
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Centre d'archives de la Côte-du-Sud
Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière collection (F100/728/10/3)
Unknown photographer

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Boy hauling a recently captured beluga ashore
Around 1925
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Centre d'archives de la Côte-du-Sud
Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière collection (F100/728/10/4)
Unknown photographer

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Beluga tail, pierced and with a cable attached, to anchor it to the "menoires"
21 May 1929
Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Centre d'archives de la Côte-du-Sud
Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière collection (F100/728/10/10)
Unknown photographer
Émile Lizotte (1902?1988)